Another Throat
Twenty-First-Century Black US Persona Poetry and the Archive
By Ryan Sharp
278 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 1 halftone
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-8063-7
Published: October 2024 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-8062-0
Published: October 2024
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Through his argument, Sharp demonstrates how the unique aesthetic and rhetorical license afforded to poetry, along with the interiority of persona, empowers such historically minded projects to be concurrently invested in the curation of Black narratives and identities.
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Ryan Sharp is assistant professor of English at Baylor University.
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"Sharp's analysis and thoughtful treatment of different kinds of poetic projects—even as they all fit under the rubric of persona poems—demonstrate his dexterity as a thinker. His book offers an incisive and valuable portrait of African American poetry's powerful historical imagination."—Keith D. Leonard, American University
"Through readings of poetry that are startling in their clarity and cleverness, Sharp argues that Black writers have inhabited different kinds of poetic personas (the dead, the imagined, and even the nonhuman) to undo acts of silencing and to explore the complex relationship between Blackness and the archive. He might be the best reader of twenty-first-century Black poetry that we have." —GerShun Avilez, author of Black Queer Freedom: Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire